1. Charles Macintosh (1766)

British Chemist

Chemist and inventor who created the first waterproof fabrics. His name adorned the Mackintosh raincoat.

2. Frederick Soddy (1877)

British Chemist

An English chemist who was known for his studies of radioactive substances. He was awarded the 19201 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that radioactivity is caused by the transmutation...

3. Harry Kroto (1939)

British Chemist

English chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for his discovery of fullerenes. For the majority of his career he taught chemistry at the University of Sussex.

4. George Porter (1920)

British Chemist

George Hornidge Porter Baron Porter of Luddenham OM FRS was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

5. Jack D. Dunitz (1923)

British Chemist

Jack David Dunitz FRS is a British chemist and widely known chemical crystallographer. He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in...

6. Vernon C. Gibson (1958)

British Chemist

Vernon Charles Gibson FRS is an English chemist and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He took up the appointment of Chief Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Defence on...

7. C. Robin Ganellin (1934)

British Chemist

Charon Robin Ganellin FRS is a British born medicinal chemist and Emeritus Smith Kline and French Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at University College London. He has contributed much to the...

8. Eric Welsh (1897)

British Chemist

Eric Welsh was a British chemist and military officeer. From 1919 to 1940 he worked for the Bergen branch of the company International Paint Ltd. From 1941 he headed the...

9. Alan Fersht (1943)

British Chemist

Sir Alan Roy Fersht FRS is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He is distinguished for his pioneering work on protein folding. Since October...

10. Stephen G. Davies (1950)

British Chemist

Stephen Graham Steve Davies is a British chemist and the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

11. Simon Gaskell (1950)

British Chemist

Simon J. Gaskell is the current principal of Queen Mary University of London. He took up his post in October 2009 having previously been the vice-president of research at the...

12. Tony Marchington (1955)

British Chemist

Dr Anthony Frank Marchington was an English biotechnology entrepreneur and businessman famous as the co-founder of Oxford Molecular and the former owner of Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman.

13. Henry Letheby (Unknow)

British Chemist

Henry Letheby was an English analytical chemist and public health officer.

14. David Logan (chemist) (1956)

British Chemist

Professor David Edwin Logan ' is a Northern Irish chemist and has been Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2005.

15. Jonathan Clayden (1968)

British Chemist

Jonathan Paul Clayden is a Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Manchester.

16. James Cumming (1777)

British Chemist

Rev. Prof. James Cumming was the ninth Professor of Chemistry in Cambridge from 1815 to 1860. Cumming is remembered for his research-led teaching and his lectures during which he would...

17. Joshua Ward (1685)

British Chemist

Joshua Ward was a London pharmacist and an experimental chemist. In 1736 Ward heated saltpeter and as it decomposed the sulfur was oxidized to SO3 which combined with water to...

18. Richard Laming (1798)

British Chemist

Richard Laming was a British surgeon natural philosopher inventor chemist and industrialist. There is some uncertainty about his origins. It is believed that he was born Margate England 17 August...

19. Jacob Klein (chemist) (Unknow)

British Chemist

Professor Jacob Klein former holder of the Herman Mark Chair of Polymer Physics in the Materials and Interfaces Department at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot Israel and Dr Lee's Professor...

20. Geoffrey Allen (chemist) (Unknow)

British Chemist

Sir Geoffrey Allen FRS FREng is a British chemist who has also served as a Vice-President of the Royal Society. He is primarily known for his work on the physics...

21. Matthew H. Todd (1973)

British Chemist

Matthew H. Todd is a famous British chemist, who was born on January 13, 1973 in United Kingdom. Matthew Houghton Todd (born 13 January 1973) is a British chemist and...